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An Inquisition Indented taken for the Sovereign Lord the King at <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1237">London</rs>
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(that is<lb></lb>
to say) at the parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1238">ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in<lb></lb>
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aforesaid on the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65012_date94">eighth day of August</rs>
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in the thirty ninth year of the reign of our Sovereign<lb></lb>
Lord George the third King of Great Britain and so forth before <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-2">Thomas Shelton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65012_occ364">Coroner</rs>
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of our said Lord the King for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1240">City of London</rs>
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and Borough of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1241">Southwark</rs>
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on view of the body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-3">James Watson</rs>
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now here lying dead by the oath of John<lb></lb>
Brown <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-4">George Thompson</rs>
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Henry Tyler <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-5">Henry Miller</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-7">Richard Sims</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-8">Henry Madgen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-9">Thomas Gower</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-10">William Russell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-11">George Thomas</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-12">Thomas Snape</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-13">Gerrard Willett</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-14">John Dolphin</rs>
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and Samuel Leonard good and lawful men of the Cit of London<lb></lb>
aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to inquire for<lb></lb>
our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-15">James Watson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came to his death say upon their oath that a certain person whose name to the<lb></lb>
Jurors aforesaid is unknown on the sixth day of August in the year aforesaid being driving<lb></lb>
a certain Cart drawn by two horses into a certain yard Situate in the parish of<lb></lb>
Saint Sepulchre in the Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1242">London</rs>
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aforesaid and the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-16">James Watson</rs>
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an infant being Standing near the gateway of the said yard It so happened that<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-17">James Watson</rs>
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was accidentally casually and by misfortune violently<lb></lb>
jammed and prossed by the near wheel of the said Cart against the said Gateway<lb></lb>
and did thereby then and there receive divers mortal bruises in and upon his<lb></lb>
body of which said Mortal bruises he the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-18">James Watson</rs>
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on the said sixth day of August in the wright and as well at the said<lb></lb>
parish of Saint Sepulchre in the Ward aforesaid in London at also at the aforesaid<lb></lb>
parish of Saint Bartholomew the less in the Ward aforesaid in <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65012_geo1243">London</rs>
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aforesaid did<lb></lb>
languish and languishing did live on which said sixth day of August in the year<lb></lb>
aforesaid the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-19">James Watson</rs>
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at the parish and ward last aforesaid in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid of the said Mortal bruises did die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their<lb></lb>
oath aforesaid do say that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-20">James Watson</rs>
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in manner and by the means aforesaid<lb></lb>
accidentally casually and by misfortune came to his death and not otherwise And that<lb></lb>
the near wheel of the said Cart was moving to the death of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-21">James Watson</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and is of the value of one Shilling and the property and in the possession of Willaim<lb></lb>
Owen of Sheep side in the County of Herts farmer In Witness where of as well<lb></lb>
the Said Coroner as the said <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65012_n1212-22">John Brown</rs>
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the foreman of the said Jurors on<lb></lb>
behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in their presence have to this<lb></lb>
Inquisition set their hands and Seals the day year and place first above<lb></lb>
written.</p>
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Foreman</p>
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